Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-first Evening, sentence 13
The rays of the Moon do not read all that is written by mortals."
Who acts: rays, mortals · What happens: not read, write, ray · To what, where: that, Moon
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-first Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rays, mortals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rays | det |
| 2 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 read | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Moon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Moon | det |
| 5 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rays | nmod |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 read | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 read | advmod |
| 8 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 written | det:predet |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 written | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 written | aux:pass |
| 12 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 read | ccomp |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 mortals | case |
| 14 | mortals | mortal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 written | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 read | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not read | present · do-support | the rays of the Moon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | write | present · passive | mortals | that | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ray | the Moon | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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